After reading Four Battlegrounds, by Paul Scharre, and Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zubuff, I have no faith that our government can protect us from the CCP or Silicon Valley. The CCP wants to have all of our biometric data so that it can profile us within it’s social credit system and thus stiffle our political opposition to authoritarianism. Silicon Valley tech companies exercise their unethical behavior modification techniques at scale to drive consumerist behaviors and as an offshoot they also drive massive amounts of people toward extremism. There seems to be no technically savvy intellectuals in government that can thwart these changes and I foresee a crisis event being the only wakeup call for us to drive change.
After reading Four Battlegrounds, by Paul Scharre, and Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zubuff, I have no faith that our government can protect us from the CCP or Silicon Valley. The CCP wants to have all of our biometric data so that it can profile us within it’s social credit system and thus stiffle our political opposition to authoritarianism. Silicon Valley tech companies exercise their unethical behavior modification techniques at scale to drive consumerist behaviors and as an offshoot they also drive massive amounts of people toward extremism. There seems to be no technically savvy intellectuals in government that can thwart these changes and I foresee a crisis event being the only wakeup call for us to drive change.